Parked cars, side by side
Four car boxes parked side by side in a bay, noses toward the camera, with a pedestrian, at 35 mm.
What to look at
Four equal boxes across the view: the outer ones show more of their sides, the middle ones almost none.
Every roof (1.5 m) is just below the 1.6 m horizon, so each shows a thin top.
The pedestrian's head is on the horizon; the cars are shoulder-high on the figure.
What this scene is for
Four identical car boxes in a parking bay with a pedestrian. Use it for car parks, streets with parked traffic, and any scene where the same object repeats across the view rather than into it.
The mistake it settles
Showing the same amount of side on every car. Boxes placed across the view turn as they get further from the centre line: the outer ones show more of their sides, the middle ones almost none. Repeating one drawing four times is instantly readable as a copy-paste.
The camera
| Lens | 35 mm on full frame |
| Camera height | 1.6 m above the floor (standing) |
| Rotation | 30° to the scene's axes |
| Tilt | level (verticals stay vertical) |
| Objects | 4 × 1.8 × 4.5 × 1.5 m block · 1.75 m figure |
| Floor | 1 m squares |
Measured off this render
Taken from the same camera model the tool draws with, on the 1340 × 754 PNG above.
| Angle of view | 54.4° across (35 mm on full frame) |
| Horizon | 422 px from the top, 56% of the image height |
| Depth-axis vanishing point | 82 px beyond the left edge |
| Width-axis vanishing point | 1,586 px beyond the right edge |
| Object | Distance | Height on the render | Below the horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 × 4.5 × 1.5 m block | 10.1 m | 195 px | all of it |
| 1.75 m figure | 10.3 m | 285 px | 91% |
| 1.8 × 4.5 × 1.5 m block | 10.8 m | 195 px | all of it |
Draw it from these numbers
- Rule the horizon across the sheet at 56% of the picture height — 422 px down on this 754 px render. Every other line in the scene is measured from it.
- Two vanishing points on that line: 82 px beyond the left edge, and 1,586 px beyond the right edge — far enough out that you should match the grid angles instead of chasing it.
- Set the scale from the 1.75 m figure at 10.3 m: 285 px tall, with 91% of it below the horizon. That share is the camera height divided by the object's height (1.6 ÷ 1.75 m), and it is the same for every object of that height anywhere in the picture.
Open the reference in the tool to move the camera, change the lens, or add your own objects at real sizes; the share link keeps your version. Draw over the PNG at 30–50% opacity in any app with layers.
Question
Why do the outer cars look turned when they are all parked in parallel?
They are not turned; you are seeing them from a different angle. Each car sits at a different position across your view, so the line from the camera to it meets the car at a different angle. It is the same effect that makes people at the edge of a wide photograph look stretched.